Interest in work-based learning has grown as a strategy for providing opportunities for students to learn and demonstrate career-readiness skills. This resource explores how states and districts can use intermediary strategies to build high-quality work-based learning systems.
Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and funders are increasingly aware of the powerful potential for summertime experiences and the need to design, implement, and continuously improve summertime experiences for all.
The Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) helped leadership at state and local education agencies integrate educational and assistive technology for all students to achieve high educational standards. CITEd provided this support through identification of best practices, innovative online technical assistance tools, professional development, and communities of practice.
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The unprecedented number of forcibly displaced people poses a serious challenge to quality education and learning across the world. Join AIR on Thursday, October 20, 2022, from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m. ET to learn more about teachers’ critical role in ensuring inclusive and quality education during forced displacement. ...
Connected Educator Month (CEM) is an annual, October-long collection of events and resources to connect educators and education stakeholders with professional learning experiences worldwide. This year, AIR is leading three CEM themes: Social and Emotional Learning in School Settings, Building Quality Beyond the Bell, and Multi-tiered Systems of Support. AIR ...
Museums have had a longstanding reach and presence in the nation, serving as an educational resource and pillars of community and culture. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, along with AIR, is working to establish a longitudinal survey of the nation’s museums as part of the Federal Statistical System. ...
The purpose of the five-year Preschool Research and Technical Assistance Project for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation has been to offer research-based technical assistance to state and local entities on how to phase in access to high-quality preschool to all children in California, beginning in the neighborhoods with the ...
Colleges and universities are relying heavily on contingent faculty to increase flexibility and reduce costs. These resources explore this trend to determine where contingent faculty are most often hired and savings actually result in lower overall costs.
As a part of the Striving Readers program supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Milwaukee Public Schools implemented the Read 180 program in five schools in an effort to provide targeted literacy supports to struggling students. This evaluation update details the results of the evaluation, which show that the ...
Over the past decade, a number of reform efforts have aimed at reducing the size of the learning communities in the nation’s schools. This paper describes the framework underlying our evaluation design of a large-scale, multifaceted school reform initiative and identifies some of the methodological challenges inherent in work of ...